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Publisher Comments
These wonderful short stories were written, read and illustrated with fondest appreciation of everyone's very own family tree.
Celeste's children's stories were inspired from the deep meadows of Vermont red clover. The pages are in urgent need of little artists to color and doodle over and over. Carve out your own illustrated storybook and follow Celeste through streams and wildflowers and find your special place within the Shire.
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Publisher CommentsThe twelve magical Just So Stories tell, among other things, how the camel got his hump, the leopard his spots, the elephant his trunk, how the alphabet was made, and how a butterfly caused mayhem at the court of King Solomon when he stamped. Kipling's own illustrations make Just So Stories one of the few enduring classics of children's literature. |
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Publisher CommentsLittle Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. The March girls are shown throughout as real people and not mere moral examples as we follow them from childhood through Little Women and Little Women Part Two (known in Europe as Good Wives). The portrayal of the strains and delights of family life is unsurpassed in ... read more>>>
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Publisher Comments"Margery Sharp's mouse-centric 1959 adventure, The Rescuers, has only been out of print for a decade, but it is well worth revisiting. For one thing, it has just been reissued in handsome hardback as part of the New York Review Children's Collection, with drawings by Garth Williams. For another, this new incarnation provides an excuse to rescue the story for a generation of children who might otherwise know only the animated 1977 Disney movie of t... read more>>>
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